There are boys and there are men. Robert Redford is a man like no other. I don't think I can write enough good things about him if I had all the space in the world and I am not even talking about sundance film festival started by him for which alone he should get a Nobel.
Coming to his latest movie - to an untrained eye, this will start off as a boring drama piece with no punches but I think in this film is the hardest sock a filmmaker has delivered on Mr Bush's chin and on our conscience as a society.
I am saying ours and not American society alone because really there are many countries in the world which are facing similar dilemma. Including my country - India.
People who stand to benefit the least land up sacrificing the most for the nation. And in this line from the movie perhaps lies the moral centre of this story as well.
Yes, it is not directed like a young teen on speed and not edited by paraplagic sccissor happy fingers but it will make us think of where we stand on issues concerning our own little worlds and what are we doing about it.
Most critics of this film trashed it as a slow boring drama but Tom cruise is not an idiot to take up a lead role in a film where he hardly gets up from a chair if the film wasn't important enough.
The reason this film did not connect with America today is for the same reason we do not like looking in the mirror when we are having a bad hair day but there's no point going around breaking the mirror. is there? it's not the mirror's fault dummy.
The script is intelligent and screenplay is well crafted and most importantly the director is not trying to show off. he is simply sharing some facts through simple story telling. Mature cinema , reminded me of what great american cinema used to be before it got eaten by chinese monsters.
